UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTION TO NATO COMMON-FUNDED BUDGETS IN FISCAL YEAR 1999.

SEC. 1006. UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTION TO NATO COMMON-FUNDED BUDGETS IN FISCAL YEAR 1999. (a) Fiscal Year 1999 Limitation.— The total amount contributed by the Secretary of Defense in fiscal year 1999 for the common-funded budgets of NATO may be any amount up to, but not in excess of, the amount specified in subsection (b) (rather than the maximum amount that would otherwise be applicable to those contributions under the fiscal year 1998 baseline limitation). (b) Total Amount.— The amount of the limitation applicable under subsection (a) is the sum of the following:112 STAT. 2114 (1) The amounts of unexpended balances, as of the end of fiscal year 1998, of funds appropriated for fiscal years before fiscal year 1999 for payments for those budgets. (2) The amount authorized to be appropriated under section 301(1) that is available for contributions for the NATO common-funded military budget under section 314. (3) The amount authorized to be appropriated under section 201 that is available for contribution for the NATO common-funded civil budget under section 243. (4) The total amount of the contributions authorized to be made under section 2501. (c) Definitions.— For purposes of this section: (1) Common-funded budgets of nato.— The term “common-funded budgets of NATO” means the Military Budget, the Security Investment Program, and the Civil Budget of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (and any successor or additional account or program of NATO). (2) Fiscal year 1998 baseline limitation.— The term “fiscal year 1998 baseline limitation” means the maximum annual amount of Department of Defense contributions for common-funded budgets of NATO that is set forth as the annual limitation in section 3(2)(C)(ii) of the resolution of the Senate giving the advice and consent of the Senate to the ratification of the Protocols to the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 on the Accession of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic (as defined in section 4(7) of that resolution), approved by the Senate on April 30, 1998.